🏙 Towns & cities
Coober Pedy
town in South Australia, Australia
🇦🇺 Australia · -29.0139, 134.7550
Coober Pedy is recorded as a filming location for 1 production. Wikidata records these shoots at town level — somewhere in Coober Pedy, rather than at one identified spot. Wikipedia names it for 2 more.
“Exterior location filming took place primarily in the mining town of Coober Pedy, though the set for Bartertown was built at an old brickworks (the Brickpit) at Homebush Bay in Sydney's western suburbs, and the children's camp was in the Blue Mountains.”
Movies filmed in Coober Pedy
Filmed here, per Wikipedia
Productions whose English Wikipedia article names Coober Pedy as somewhere it was shot, with no matching statement on Wikidata. Weaker evidence than the statements above, so it gets its own list — each production’s own page links the exact section the claim comes from.
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Pitch Black
2000
“Most of the filming, including all of the external locations, took place in and around Coober Pedy, South Australia.” Wikipedia
- The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert 1994
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Frequently asked questions
What was filmed in Coober Pedy?
3 productions are recorded as filmed in Coober Pedy, including Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985), Pitch Black (2000) and The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (1994). 2 of the credits come from Wikipedia articles rather than Wikidata statements and are labelled per Wikipedia.
Which is the best known production filmed in Coober Pedy?
Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985), covered by 42 Wikipedia language editions, which is how this atlas ranks fame.
Where is Coober Pedy?
Coober Pedy is in Australia, at -29.0139, 134.7550.
Where does this information come from?
Filming location statements on Wikidata, joined to the place's coordinates and Wikipedia article, plus places named in Wikipedia articles, which are labelled per Wikipedia wherever they appear. The photograph is from Wikimedia Commons, by Pavel Špindler, CC BY 3.0.